"nine weeks in the Top 40. The No. 6 spot was just short of the achievement of his 1977 single ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"" with the Tom Robinson Band, which reached No. 5. It reached No. 1 on the UK Indie chart and stayed at No. 1 for three weeks. It later appeared on Robinson's 1984 album ""Hope and Glory"" and revived his career. Robinson has said that although ""My flip answer to the question of what song am I the most proud is ""(Wish I Had a) Grey Cortina"" ... the true answer is ""War Baby"" is the song that I'm"
"Color Esperanza ""Color Esperanza"" (approximately in English: ""The ""Hope"" Color"") is the lead single from Diego Torres's fifth studio album ""Un Mundo Diferente"". The songs lyrics reflect on themes of hope and overcoming hard times in life and the song's uplifting beat reflects the lyrical themes. The song was written by Torres along with Cachorro López, the song's producer, Coti Sorokin and Spanish journalist Paco García Caridad. The song was performed on MTV Unplugged featuring group La Chilinguita. In 2003, the song was performed specially by Torres for the Pope John Paul II in Cuatro Vientos Airport in Madrid, Spain"
"Color of the Blues ""Color of the Blues"" is a 1958 country song written by George Jones and Lawton Williams and released by Jones on January 15, 1958. By the time of the release of ""Color of the Blues"" in 1957, Jones had been releasing singles for three years and had scored four Top 10 hits: ""Why Baby Why"" (1955), ""You Gotta Be My Baby"" (1956), ""Just One More"" (1956), and ""Don't Stop the Music"" (1957). However, his three previous singles had failed to chart and, in the wake of Elvis Presley's explosion in popularity, he had even recorded a"
"Corrine, Corrina ""Corrine, Corrina"" (sometimes ""Corrina, Corrina"") is a 12-bar country blues song in the AAB form. ""Corrine, Corrina"" was first recorded by Bo Carter (Brunswick 7080, December 1928). However, it was not copyrighted until 1932 by Armenter ""Bo Carter"" Chatmon and his publishers, Mitchell Parish and J. Mayo Williams. The song is familiar for its opening verse: The Mississippi Sheiks, as the Jackson Blue Boys with Papa Charlie McCoy on vocals, recorded the same song in 1930; this time as ""Sweet Alberta"" (Columbia 14397-D), substituting the words ""Sweet Alberta"" for ""Corrine, Corrina"". ""Corrine, Corrina"" has been recorded in a"
"Vietnam War. The word ""color,"" in the song, means ""label"" or ""call"" and follows the 'color' motif set in Barbra Streisand's 1963 release of ""My Coloring Book."" The song served as a major musical inspiration for the 2016 track ""Celebrate"" by Anderson .Paak. Color Him Father ""Color Him Father"" is a song released by funk and soul group The Winstons. It was released in 1969, and reached number 2 on the R&B charts and number 7 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 that same year. Its composer, Richard Lewis Spencer, won a Grammy Award for Best R&B song in 1970. ""Color"
"reached #7 on the country singles chart. It is often featured on compilations of Jones early Starday and Mercury albums, including; 1961's ""Greatest Hits"", 2004's ""Definitive Collection: 1955-1962, ""50 Years of Hits"", and 2005's ""24 Greatest Hits"". ""Jones thought so much of the song that he would recut it for both United Artists and Musicor in the 1960s. It would also be recorded by Red Sovine, Skeeter Davis, Loretta Lynn, Elvis Costello, Patty Loveless, and John Prine featuring Susan Tedeschi."" Color of the Blues ""Color of the Blues"" is a 1958 country song written by George Jones and Lawton Williams"
"Loves You"". Burlesque revivalist Dita Von Teese is pictured on the front cover of the EP. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (EP) Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair is the title of a 2003 EP by the American rock band The Twilight Singers. The song ""Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)"" is a traditional folk song which was first known in the United States about 1915. However, it may have come from Scotland originally. It is about a girl who is waiting for her lover to return from sea. Greg"
"& Robinson with ""My Little World)"". At the close of voting, it had received 69 points, placing 7th in a field of 18. It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1977 Contest by Mia Martini with ""Libera"". Al Bano and Romina Power returned to the Contest in 1985 with ""Magic Oh Magic"". We'll Live It All Again ""We'll Live It All Again"" was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, performed in Italian and English by Al Bano & Romina Power. Along with 1984's ""I treni di Tozeur"", 1991's ""Comme è ddoce 'o mare"" and 2011's ""Follia"
"a lead vocalist and songwriter. Gordon contributed two songs, ""Tunic (Song for Karen)"" and ""Kool Thing"", that challenged the expectations of a woman's role in American society. ""Tunic (Song for Karen)"", an exploration into self-esteem and body image, traces Karen Carpenter's struggle with anorexia nervosa to her mother's comment that she appeared overweight onstage, and the music industry's rejection of her proposed 1980 solo album. Band biographer Stevie Chick described Gordon's lyrics as ""coloured by a suffocating almost gothic sadness"" and ""melancholy perhaps similar to that which underscores the Carpenters own music"". A second Gordon composition, ""Kool Thing"", was inspired"
"Color Him Father ""Color Him Father"" is a song released by funk and soul group The Winstons. It was released in 1969, and reached number 2 on the R&B charts and number 7 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 that same year. Its composer, Richard Lewis Spencer, won a Grammy Award for Best R&B song in 1970. ""Color Him Father"" is one of the best known songs by The Winstons. It was released as a single, and the B-side contained an instrumental track titled ""Amen, Brother"". ""Amen, Brother"" contains what has now become one of the most heavily sampled drum breaks"
"Kodachrome (song) ""Kodachrome"" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the lead single from his third studio album, ""There Goes Rhymin' Simon"" (1973), released on Columbia Records. The song is named after the Kodak 35mm film Kodachrome. An instrumental version was also music for Level 3 and Level 11 in the computer game ""Frantic Freddie"". After a review in ""Billboards May 12 issue praising its ""cheerfully antisocial lyrics,"" the song debuted at #82 in the Hot 100 on the week-ending May 19, 1973. The lyrics to this song on ""There Goes Rhymin' Simon"" differed in wording"
"(aka Bunny) Mundy (lead guitar & backing vocals). All are from the mission settlement of Koonibba, South Australia. Bunna Lawrie is the leader and singer of the band and he was also their original drummer. Bunna Lawrie is also a member and respected elder of the Mirning Aboriginal tribe from the Coastal Nullabor, South Australia. He is a Mirning whaledreamer and songman, medicine man and story teller of his tribe. He is Coloured Stone's founding member and chief songwriter. The band's single, ""Black Boy"" was a success when first released in 1984 -it became the number one song in Fiji"
"""Songs We Should Have Written"" (2004), is a collection of cover songs. It includes songs written by Robyn Hitchcock, The Rolling Stones (""Paint It Black"" reinterpreted as a crawlingly slow raga which ""shove(s) a few downers down the song's throat to counter the original version's adrenaline-fueled fire""), and a ""dark and sweet"" take of Sonny and Cher's ""The Beat Goes On"", described as ""10 times more ominous and 20 times more pleasurable"" than the original. The album also includes a modern rendition of the Johnny Cash anthem ""Folsom Prison Blues"". After recording ""Songs We Should Have Written"", singer Tod A"
"Bandiera Rossa Bandiera Rossa (Italian for ""Red Flag""), often also called Avanti Popolo after its opening words (also to avoid any confusion with The three flags, another socialist song) is one of the most famous songs of the Italian labour movement. It glorifies the red flag, symbol of the socialist and communist movement. The text was written by Carlo Tuzzi in 1908; the melody is taken from two Lombard folk songs. Apart from the first Italian text, there are several variants which are identified with certain socialist or communist parties. The last two lines """"Evviva il comunismo e la libertà"""""
"horn arrangements. The most notable song to feature the orchestral coloring was ""Love to Love"". In 1994, a CD comprising this album and ""No Heavy Petting"" was released by BGO Records. 2008 EMI's remastered edition includes 4 live bonus tracks, recorded at The Roundhouse, London. The album cover erroneously states that these tracks were recorded in 1976, but the correct year is 1977. EMI did correct the writing credits, with Paul Raymond finally being credited for his contributions. The title track and ""Love to Love"" were featured in the 1999 movie ""Detroit Rock City"". ""Love to Love"" was also covered"
"Rosanna (song) ""Rosanna"" is a song written by David Paich and performed by the American rock band Toto, the opening track and the first single from their 1982 album ""Toto IV"". This song won the Record of the Year Grammy Award in the 1983 presentations. ""Rosanna"" was also nominated for the Song of the Year award. The song ""Rosanna"" peaked at No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, behind two different songs, ""Don't You Want Me"" by The Human League and ""Eye of the Tiger"" by Survivor. It was also one of the band's most successful"
"Colored People (song) ""Colored People"" is a song written and recorded by Christian rock band DC Talk. The song was one of several radio singles released from their 1995 studio album, ""Jesus Freak"". ""Colored People"" is a pop rock song primarily based on acoustic guitars, a background electric guitar, and occasional strings. The verses are sung by Kevin Max, while the chorus vocals are shared by all three members with Michael Tait leading. Lyrically, the song is about appreciation of racial variety, promoting unity and a ""kaleidoscopic take on race relations"". The song was released as a single in 1996"
"Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (EP) Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair is the title of a 2003 EP by the American rock band The Twilight Singers. The song ""Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)"" is a traditional folk song which was first known in the United States about 1915. However, it may have come from Scotland originally. It is about a girl who is waiting for her lover to return from sea. Greg Dulli's cover of the song would later appear on The Twilight Singers' 2004 covers album ""She"
"recorded the song complete with introduction in 1978 (see below). Spanish vocal quartet Los Rosillo, recorded a Spanish version, with the original spoken intro, in their debut album in 1988. The song was performed in a film short ""A Rhapsody in Black and Blue"" by Armstrong. The 1931 recording by Armstrong with his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra is a subset of the complete lyric of the 1910 version and the expanded later version, with added scat singing and long instrumental ending: SHINE (That's Why They Call Me Shine) On his 1978 album ""Jazz"", Ry Cooder performed the song in"
"and it sold 120,000 copies. It was followed by ""When You Gonna Learn"" and ""Dancin' in the Moonlight"". The lyrics of ""Black Boy"" included the line ""Black boy, black boy, the colour of your skin is your pride and joy,"" which was a somewhat revolutionary sentiment for Aboriginals of Australia in the 1980s. It moved black audiences to increase their dancing each time it was played at an early gig in Alice Springs. Bunna Lawrie's son, Jason Scott played guitar, bass, drums and didgeridoo for Coloured Stone from the age of 13 years. His first major gig was ""Rock Against"
"February 5, 1937 (Decca 5350). ""Corrine, Corrina"" entered the folk-like acoustical tradition during the American folk music revival of the 1960s when Bob Dylan began playing a version he titled ""Corrina, Corrina"". Although his blues-based version contains lyrics and song structure from ""Corrine Corrina"", his melody is lifted from ""Stones in My Passway"" (Vocalion 3723) recorded by Robert Johnson in 1937. Dylan's version, found on his second album, ""The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"", also borrows lyrics taken from Johnson's song: The Rising Sons, featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, recorded the song as ""Corinna, Corinna"" before breaking up in 1966. Taj"
"impressive collection featuring a mixed bag of Jones originals and songs made famous by others, including Marty Robbins, Don Gibson, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams. The Jones-penned ""Don't Stop The Music"" had been a minor hit for the singer in early 1957 while ""Life To Go"", also written by Jones, was a top five smash for Stonewall Jackson in 1959. ""Blue & Lonesome"" also includes the original recording of ""Color of the Blues"", a song Jones wrote with Lawton Williams that would go on to be recorded by Red Sovine, Skeeter Davis, Loretta Lynn, Elvis Costello and Patty Loveless. ""Blue"
"intro song. Current members Former members Red Rider Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved great success in Canada, the band never had a song in the Top 40 in the United States, although ""Lunatic Fringe"" became popular on album-oriented rock radio. They also charted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 with ""Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me)"", and charted comparably to ""Lunatic Fringe"" on Mainstream Rock (AOR) with ""Big League"" (which remains popular to this day), ""Human Race"", and ""Power"". Red Rider was formed in"
"MGM in 1957. He was the composer of many of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons' popular theme songs, including ""The Flintstones"" until 1981, ""Top Cat"", ""The Jetsons"", ""Jonny Quest"", ""Superfriends"", ""Josie and the Pussycats"", ""The Smurfs"" and ""The New Scooby-Doo Movies"" and all its spinoffs until 1986. Beginning in 1960, Curtin also composed many of the stock tunes used as incidental music in the various Hanna-Barbera series, along with the jingle heard underneath Hanna-Barbera's closing logo in 1979. He also was the composer for the 1960 animated series ""Q.T. Hush"", one of the first cartoons to appear in color. He also composed"
"""Rosanna"" in a flashback. ""Rosanna"" was featured in a 2015 AT&T/DirecTV commercial. It appears, in heavily edited form, in the 2017 movie ""CHIPS"". Rosanna (song) ""Rosanna"" is a song written by David Paich and performed by the American rock band Toto, the opening track and the first single from their 1982 album ""Toto IV"". This song won the Record of the Year Grammy Award in the 1983 presentations. ""Rosanna"" was also nominated for the Song of the Year award. The song ""Rosanna"" peaked at No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, behind two different songs, ""Don't"
"American rock band Love's 1966 single ""She Comes in Colors"". The band's record company—Rhino Records—executive Gary Stewart stated that ""Certainly, the riff and instrumentation [of 'Beautiful Stranger'] are reminiscent of 'She Comes in Colors,'"" and that the ""da da da da da"" chorus on the track seems to be based upon ""an instrumental flourish that's an integral part of the [Love] record. It may be a conscious or an unconscious homage."" Madonna denied any such influence, claiming that she never heard of Love. According to Michael Paoletta from ""Billboard"", ""no fierce-ruling club DJ in 1999 would [have] dared play the"
"people; Strummer wore a T-shirt identifying two left-wing revolutionary groups: the words ""Brigade Rosse""—Italy's Red Brigades—appeared alongside the insignia of West Germany's Red Army Faction. Their politics were made explicit in the lyrics of such early recordings as ""White Riot"", which encouraged disaffected white youths to riot like their black counterparts; ""Career Opportunities"", which addressed the alienation of low-paid, routinised jobs and discontent over the lack of alternatives; and ""London's Burning"", about the bleakness and boredom of life in the inner city. Artist Caroline Coon, who was associated with the punk scene, argued that ""[t]hose tough, militaristic songs were what"
"""Colour by Numbers"" (UK No. 1, US No. 2), was released in 1983. The first single, ""Church of the Poison Mind"", featuring backing vocalist Helen Terry, reached the UK and US Top 10. The second single, ""Karma Chameleon"", gave the band their biggest hit, peaking at No. 1 in the UK (the band's second chart-topper there), where it became the best selling single of 1983 and has sold 1.5 million copies there to date. It also peaked at No. 1 in the US for three consecutive weeks, and would ultimately hit No. 1 in 30 countries, thus becoming one of"
"Stones 1967 song ""She's a Rainbow"", which incorporates the line ""she comes in colors everywhere."" Lee himself agreed that ""She Comes in Colors"" influenced ""She's a Rainbow"", believing that the Rolling Stones heard the song when Love played at the Whisky a Go Go. According to ""Da Capo"" engineer Bruce Botnick, Lee was bothered by the line he believed the Rolling Stones had stolen. Others, such as ""USA Today""s Ken Barnes, have suggested that the chorus, riff, instrumentation and structure of Madonna's song ""Beautiful Stranger"", from the soundtrack of """", were based on ""She Comes in Colors"". Rhino Records executive"
"Colorblind (Counting Crows song) ""Colorblind "" is a song by American rock band Counting Crows. Written by band members Adam Duritz and Charlie Gillingham for their third album ""This Desert Life"" (1999), production was helmed by Dennis Herring and David Lowery. It was prominently featured in the 1999 drama film ""Cruel Intentions"" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair, and has since been covered by various artists, including Between the Buried and Me (who were named after a section of lyrics in the song ""Ghost Train"" from the first Counting Crows album ""August and Everything After""),"
"White Music White Music is the first studio album by the English band XTC, released on 20 January 1978. It was the follow-up to their debut, ""3D EP"", released three months earlier. ""White Music"" reached No. 38 in the UK album charts and spawned the single ""Statue of Liberty"", which was banned by the BBC for the lyric ""In my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt"". In April 1978, the group rerecorded ""This Is Pop"" as their third single. The track ""Radios in Motion"" received has become one of the band's better-known songs. In a 2009 interview, Andy Partridge stated,"
"""Paint It, Black"", the comma being an error by Decca Records, but, nonetheless, stirred controversy among fans over its racial interpretation. Upon further reissues to the UK in 1990 and 2007, ""Paint It Black"" charted at number 61 and 70, respectively. ""Paint It Black"" has appeared on numerous Stones compilations, including ""Hot Rocks 1964–1971"" (1971), ""30 Greatest Hits"" (1977), """" (1989), ""Forty Licks"" (2002), and ""GRRR!"" (2012). Live recordings are featured on the concert albums ""Flashpoint"" (1991), ""Live Licks"" (2004), ""Shine a Light"" (2008), ""Hyde Park Live"" (2013), and """" (2016). The song was featured in the music video games"
"the entire band except for Charlie Watts. The lyrics in the chorus share the phrase ""she comes in colours"" with the song of that title by Love, released in December 1966. The song begins with the piano playing an ascending scale, which returns throughout the song as a recurring motif. This motif is developed by the celesta and strings in the middle 8. Humorous and ambiguous devices are used, such as when the strings play out-of-tune and off-key towards the end of the song, and when the other Stones sing their ""La La's"" like little children. ""She's a Rainbow"" was"